Bethel, Vermont, USA (East, West) (Bethel-Gilead) (Lilliesville) (Lympus)
1920 - NEW BETHEL FACTORY. Weston, Mass., Shoe Plant Will Come to Vermont.

Bethel, March 30. - Arrangements have been closed for the transfer to Bethel of the shoe manufacturing business of the Seaver Shoe Co., now located at Stoneham, Mass. A corporation will be organized under the laws of the state of Vermont to carry on and increase the business by Bethel men who will furnish additional capital. The Weston shop has been secured for the business, and work will begin this week fitting the building for occupancy and it is expected that about May 1 Mr. Seaver will move his present business from Stoneham to Bethel. He will at first use entirely new machinery and as the business gets under way will move his machinery now in use in Stoneham to Bethel.

The company manufactures sizes three to five and one half of children's shoes and have already an established market. It will employ about sixty hands, of whom three fourths will be female.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
March 30, 1920

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